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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Parents Television Council Comes Out in Favor of More Teen Pregnancy, More Abortions and More Spreading of the AIDS Virus

Fear and Loathing at the MTV Broadcast of the VMA

MTV
recently aired a show that
presented awards for music videos, and the apparent highlight was a performance
by Miley Cyrus. This has drawn a lot of
attention and some criticism. While watching Ms. Cyrus most people were
probably a little bored and can no longer look at the “We’re Number One” finger
at football games with the same detachment any more, so it was hard to see what
the fuss was all about. But one
group has been highly, highly irritated.

TheParents Television Council, a nonprofit group known for criticizing shows,
including “Family Guy,” for explicit content and adult jokes, took the network
to task for airing condom ads and staging performances with skimpy costumes and
sexually suggestive dancing duringthe Video Music Awardson Sunday.

The focus here is
on their objection to condom ads. As
near as we can tell, without any expert knowledge in the field, it seems that
the main thing that condoms do is prevent unwanted pregnancies, prevent
abortion and prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. One would think that any group that was
concerned with the welfare of the population would be shouting “use condoms”
from the top of their collective voices.

So the conclusion, based on this behavior is that the
Parents Television Council must want to spread AIDS, must want more unwed
teenage pregnancies and must want more rather than less abortions to take
place. That is certainly their right to
espouse such views, just as it is our right to castigate, or better yet ignore
them for those views.